BOVINE BODY POSITION DETECTOR IN AUTOMATIC MILKING MACHINE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To correctly and high-accurately detect a bovine body position and stably, surely and quickly install a teat cup. SOLUTION: This automatic milking machine has a detecting member- displacing mechanism part 2 longitudinally movably mounting the detecting member 3 attachable to a rear end of a bovine body Cb, a connecting part- transferring mechanism part 4 provided at the front of the detecting member 3 and longitudinally transferring a connecting part 5 connectable to the detecting member 3, a detecting member-forcing mechanism part 6 forwardly pushing the detecting member 3, a longitudinal position detecting part 7 having a first bovine body position sensor 7s detecting the longitudinal position of the detecting member 3 and a second bovine body position sensor 8s of a reflection-type on an arm part 9 forwardly projected from the detecting member 3. By the constitution, a transverse position detecting part 8 detecting the transverse position of the bovine body Cb is provided.